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Monday, October 27, 2014

Hello Friends,
Today I have a Christmas Gift Box to show you, created with the beautiful Creative Expressions Craft Dies designed by Sue Wilson. This collection of Christmas dies is called Festive Collection. I absolutely love these dies, they are elegant and beautifully detailed.
For my American friends, you can also see the entire Festive Collection Here.

These are the Craft Dies by Sue Wilson used to make the Christmas Gift Box:

8. To make the flower, die cut the petals using Classic Poinsettia for the bottom layer and Mosaic Poinsettia for the top layer. Glue layers together, shape petals and adhere together with foam squares to form flower.

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Hello Friends,
Today I have a Side Step card to share with you using Heartfelt Creations Classic Sunflower Collection. I love this collection, having the papers, stamps and dies coordinate with each other makes it really easy to create a great card.

For the flowers, stamp Classic Sunflower on natural white
cardstock with brown ink and die cut with Classic Sunflower Die. Color flowers
with Distress inks, shape the petals and layer to form sunflowers. Embellish center of flowers with glass
glitter and Glossy Accents. Adhere
vines, leaves and flowers to card using foam squares.

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Hello Friends,Shift your creativity into high gear with the All Geared Up Collection from Heartfelt Creations! This imaginative mix of gears, cogs, and mechanical flowers uses deep shades of rust, brown, teal, red and cream to create a fabulous industrial vibe. Clever vanity license plates, chains, wire, rugged stripes and distressed graphics mesh perfectly with Steampunk or masculine projects, and will keep your wheels turning with ideas for "girly grunge" creations, too. The versatile All Geared Up dies feature fanciful sprockets, gears, cogs, chains and license plates that can be shaped into innovative 3-D embellishments or die cut from white cardstock to create beautiful doily accents. Six hand drawn stamp sets continue the mechanical theme with a large Cogs and Gears background stamp, themed accent stamps, mechanical bouquets and playful sentiments that are "geared" to carry your project across the finish line with a smile. The All Geared Up Collection has been designed to inspire the bold in you....so let's gear up!

Stamp image from Plates and Gears on natural white cardstock
with Versamark and heat emboss with copper embossing powder. Color with Copic markers and distress inks
and adhere to card with foam squares.

Using All Geared Up
Die set, die cut gears and chain links with bronze metallic cardstock. Embellish with brads in the center of gears
and attach to card with foam squares.
Die cut leaves with paper collection and glue on card.

I die cut the flowers with natural white cardstock with Spellbinders Pretty Petals C and Pretty Petals D. I colored the flowers with Distress inks, misted them with water, scrunched them to shape them and let them dry. Once they were dried I layered them on the card using a glue gun and added white pearls to the centers of flowers. For the leaves I used Spellbinders Sprigs.

JustRite is having a wonderful sale on all their Christmas Stamps until October 13th!!!

For my card base I used Spellbinders 5 x 7 Heirloom Legacy die set and designer paper. I stamped the Mums from the Mums Cling Stampset on designer paper with Versamark and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I colored the image with distress inks and distress markers.
The Crackle Cling Background Stampwas stamped with brown ink and the sentiment was stamped with black ink. I die cut image using the oval die from the 5 x 7 Heirloom Legacyset and adhered to card base using foam squares.
The ivy was die cut with Spellbinders Ivy in green cardstock and adhered to card with glue and foam squares.

The flowers were die cut with Spellbinders Pretty Petals C and Pretty Petals D. I colored the edges of the flowers with distress ink, embellished with white pearls and then layered with foam squares onto card. The leaves were die cut with Sprigs.

I started my card by making a 4 3/4" x 6" card base with green cardstock, followed by purple and orange layers. For the background I used distress inks in several colors to color on natural white cardstock. I then stamped Bokeh Polka Cling Background Stampwith orange distress ink and smaller circles from the set Bokeh Time Clear Stampsin purple and green.

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About Me

Hello! Welcome to my blog! My name is Marisa, I live in LA, CA with my husband Richard of 35 years. We have two daughters and three beautiful grandchildren.
I graduated from college with an Art degree in Fashion Design and Merchandising and worked in this industry designing children's clothing for a few years.
I have been involved with paper crafting for over twenty years. I have a passion for rubber stamping, die cutting, card making and scrapbooking.
My love for paper crafting has led me to freelance design cutting dies and rubber stamps for Spellbinders and Heartfelt Creations. I'm also a Licensed Designer for Spellbinders.
I enjoy spending time with my family and friends, going to the beach, sewing, reading, and cooking.
Thanks for visiting my blog. Hugs and blessings!